Opening narration:- “Transylvania, land of dark forests, dread mountains and black, unfathomed lakes, still the home of magic and devilry as the nineteenth century draws to its close. Count Dracula, monarch of all vampires, is dead. But his disciples live on, to spread the cult and corrupt the world.” A young woman on her way to take up a teaching post is offered the hospitality of the sombre Baroness Meinster in her remote castle. But the Baroness has a son, a young man she keeps shackled in his rooms – a young man with a terrifying secret!
Production Details
A Hammer film production released by Universal Pictures Copyright MCMLX by Hotspur films Ltd. – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 19563
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
RCA Sound Recording
Produced at Bray Studios, England
Technicolor 81 mins
Filming Began: 26th January 1960
UK Release: 28th August 1960
Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire
Locations:
Black Park, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire
Oakley Court Hotel, Oakley Green, Windsor, Berkshire – Chateau Meinster entrance
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Original Poster
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Footnotes
Regal actress Martita Hunt is probably best remembered for playing the part of Miss Havisham in David Lean’s classic 1946 film of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.
Freda Jackson’s other excursions into fantasy include roles as Boris Karloff’s radioactively dissolving wife in Monster of Terror (1965), as blind hag Tia Zorina in The Valley of Gwangi (1969) and as one of the Stygian witches in Clash of the Titans (1981).